Guard sole for shoes



A. M. GLUCK.

GUARD SOLE FOR SHOES. APPLICATION man SEPT. 16. 1920.

1,404,600, Patented Jan. 24, 1922.

WITNESSES INVE/VTUR fl/ my. I LUCA ATTORNEYS ABRAHAM M. GLUCK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GUARD SOLE FOR SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 24 1922.

Application filed September 16, 1920. Serial No. 410,629.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAI; M. GLUox, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of P ronx, county of Bronx, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Guard Sole for Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in guard soles for shoes. The invention is de signed primarily for use with bathing shoes, an object of the invention being to provide a guard sole for use with soft soled heelless bathing shoes, which will protect the feet of the bather from pebbles or shells, and which will serve to greatly prolong the life of the shoe.

A further object is to provide a flexible guard sole, which will be light in weight, strong and durable in use, and which will not materially increase the market price of the shoes.

A still further object is to provide improved means for permanently attaching the guard sole to a bathing shoe and to provide a guard sole of some metal, such as aluminum, which will permit of the strength, durability, flexibility, lightness and cheapness above noted.

vVith these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l is a view in side elevation of a bathing shoe, having my improved guard sole attached;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view in transverse section, on the line 22 of Figure 1; and

Figure 3 is a fragmentary view, illustrating a modification.

Referring in detail to the drawings, 1 represents an ordinary bathing shoe. The upper 2 of the shoe is preferably of some woven fabric, and the sole 3 thereof comprises a plurality of thicknesses of relatively soft lexiblc material, such as commonly employed in this connection. The several thicknesses of material forming the sole are secured to each other and the upper is secured to the sole by suitable securing devices such as l.

I provide a guard sole which comprises a flat sheet of aluminum 5, and the sheet is secured to the sole by crimping the edges of the same around the sole, as shown at 6. I do not wish, however, to be limited to this particular method of securing the guard sole to the sole of the shoe, as various other securing means might be employed.

In the modification illustrated in I provide a heel counter T, gral with the guard sole 5. secured to the shoe upper rivets 8.

Although I prefer to use aluminum, I do not wish to 1e limited to the use of this material, as other light flexible metals might be employed with good results. I desire rather to cover broadly the idea of a flexible Figure 3, preferably inte- The counter is by eyelets or metal guard sole, permanently attached and entirely covering the soft sole of a heelless shoe.

While I have illustrated one of the pre ferred embodiments of my invention, it is apparent that Various slight changes and alterations might be made in the general form of the parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not wish to limit myself to the precise detail set forth, but shall consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations, as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a soft soled heelless bathing shoe having a flexible light metal guard sole permanently attached thereto, said guard sole comprising a single fiat piece of material entirely covering the sole of the shoe.

ABRAHAM M. GLUCK. 

